Welsh Music Archive

@MusicNLW

Collecting and promoting access to music archives and manuscripts in the National Library of Wales. (Cymraeg ) Folk / Classical / Pop 🎶

Aberystwyth, Wales
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Joined October 2017

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  1. Jun 4
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    New reprint: 82 o ganeuon gwerin gol. / ed. Phyllis Kinney & Meredydd Evans 2014. Welsh lyrics only, but with notes in English on each song . Vol. 1 (1984) + vol. 2 (1987) - combining the contents of the 2 original volumes.

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  2. Jun 4

    What's in the box? Gwenan looking for inspiration in the archives of Merêd and Phyllis Kinney for a special event at

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  3. Jun 4

    The publications of the Welsh Folk Song Society inc. 'Canu'r Cymry' Eds. Phyllis Kinney and Meredydd Evans Collections of -songs with background notes in Welsh and English.

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  4. Jun 3

    CLERA - The Society for the Traditional Instruments of Wales Learn and play Welsh Traditional Music

  5. Jun 1

    Film of Galway in 1957 shown with live music accompaniment by traditional musicians, Saileog Ni Cheannabhain and Padraic Keane.

  6. May 31

    On closer inspection: 'A Welsh wedding' ( with ) on left. 'An fortune Hunter's wedding' ( with and ) on the right.

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  7. May 31

    A Welsh wedding. Satire. c. 1780 from a collection of 19th century posters

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  8. May 22

    The music manuscripts of Sir Henry Walford Davies, and a song 'for Gregynog' beginning 'O, spiritual pilgrim, rise' by Gustav Holst, apparently in the composer's hand are at the National Library:

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  9. May 21

    Joseph Parry music manuscript. Recollections of the Fireside / A Seaside Reverie

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  10. May 20

    Music manuscripts, [early 1860s]-[late 1890s], of Dr Joseph Parry, including orchestral suites, overtures and symphonies, piano sonatas and preludes and fugues for the organ; together with a draft autobiography and other papers are here:

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  11. May 17

    The list includes the composer Dilys Elwyn-Edwards, whose archive is at the National Library

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  12. May 16

    We have copies of five letters, 1887-1900, to Dr J. E. Younglove, Kentucky, from David Edward Hughes (1831-1900), FRS, inventor of the , and his niece. ( NLW Facsimiles 614)

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  13. May 14

    String Quartet 1957 from the archives of Daniel Jones (D16) at the National Library of . Details here:

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  14. May 14

    Daniel Jones composed the award-winning music for Under Milk Wood and would later edit Thomas’s poems including several examples of the poet’s early work.

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  15. May 11

    The list includes , Augusta Hall, Charlotte Church, Dilys Elwyn-Edwards, Charlotte Guest, Rebecca Evans, Sian Phillips, Shirley Bassey and Tessie O'Shea.

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  16. Apr 25

    A pleasure to welcome to the National Library digging for new tunes in the archive.

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  17. Mar 15

    Grace Williams (1906-77) was one of the first Welsh professional composers in the 20th century to win significant national prestige. Her archive (47 boxes) includes a large collection of compositions:

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  18. Mar 14
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    Prolonged applause + A minute for Howard (Caerdydd 2/12/2016)

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  19. Mar 14

    Welsh women musicians Dilys Elwyn Edwards, Phyllis Kinney, Hilda Morgan, Morfydd Owen, Grace Williams, Hilary Tann, Amy Parry-Williams, Maria Jane Williams, Mary Richards, Dora Herbert Jones, Eunice Bryn Williams...

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  20. Mar 14

    An engaging and poignant portrayal of the Welsh folk song historian, the philosopher and light entertainment producer, Dr Meredydd Evans whose archive is at the National Library of Wales Aberystwyth Mered (Merêd) [Eng CC] [2014] via

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